Improvement in skirt-protectors



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terz. Jan/c2625 UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICE.

ALBERT A. MANDELL, OF HYDE PARK, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELE AND SETH M." BLACKMER., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKIRT-PROTECTORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l5 5039, dated May 19, 1574; application filed November 26, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. MANDELL,

p of Hyde Park, of the county of Norfolk and in the following specification and represented in the accompanying, drawings, of which- Figure lis a front View, Fig. 2 an end view, and Fig. 3 a bottom View, of the article.

It is to be secured to the lower part of the skirt of a dress, which is to lap upon the boxplaits, and extendnearly if not quite down to their lower ends.

In the drawings, A denotes a strip or band of stiff cloth, united at its upper edge to another strip, B, box-plaited, as shown. Before being box-plaited the strip Bis folded near its lower edge, and the fold is to bel stitched through the plaits, as represented at a, so as to confinel it and them in place, and cause the plaits to bend or stand out with respect to one another, in manner as shown in Fig'. The lower ed ge of the inner band A is bound with a water-proof binding, C, arranged in the hand, and with respect to thelower ends ot the plaits, all in inanner as represented. projects about a third of an inch below the box-plaits.

Vhen the protector is in use it is intended for the water-proof binding to touch or nearly touch the pavement 0r ground. As the dress may be dragged along, the water-proof binding' will protect the strips from absorbing water, and the boX-plaits, by keeping the skirt out of contact with the binding, will operate The binding` Y 

